I am a Blogger™
Apr. 15th, 2026 07:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rynlingI'm currently reading two books about bloggers and influencers (Hooked and If You're Seeing This, It's Meant for You), and I was thinking about what I would even talk about if I shared aspects of my real life online. Is academia interesting? I don't think it's interesting! Also generally only bad things happen. For example:
1. A "younger" colleague in my department (in her late 40s) is so overworked that she's getting divorced.
2. An older colleague in my department is so overworked that he came back from an academic conference, collapsed, and was only found on his kitchen floor because he didn't show up to class for two days. He just got out of the hospital, but man.
3. One of my department's MA students got admitted to our PhD program, and now all the other MA students are hardcore bullying her because she reads manga in class and uses ChatGPT to write her papers. This is none of my business, so I'm respectfully pretending not to see it.
4. Ben Shapiro gave a talk at my school last night. He said that Israel has a "divine right" to commit genocide on live television while arguing that "high-IQ conservatism will win the day." Apparently people cheered, and unfortunately nobody [redacted] him with a [redacted]. To my dismay.
Fun times, fun times.
1. A "younger" colleague in my department (in her late 40s) is so overworked that she's getting divorced.
2. An older colleague in my department is so overworked that he came back from an academic conference, collapsed, and was only found on his kitchen floor because he didn't show up to class for two days. He just got out of the hospital, but man.
3. One of my department's MA students got admitted to our PhD program, and now all the other MA students are hardcore bullying her because she reads manga in class and uses ChatGPT to write her papers. This is none of my business, so I'm respectfully pretending not to see it.
4. Ben Shapiro gave a talk at my school last night. He said that Israel has a "divine right" to commit genocide on live television while arguing that "high-IQ conservatism will win the day." Apparently people cheered, and unfortunately nobody [redacted] him with a [redacted]. To my dismay.
Fun times, fun times.
